Movies like Mafia 2020
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Mafia (2020)
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Original name: மாஃபியா
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A narcotics officer engages in a cat-and-mouse chase to capture a powerful criminal kingpin.
Style:
tense, suspense, intense, crime drama, dark, detective, action thriller, twisted, neo noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug traffic, narcotics, chase, investigation, crime boss, law enforcement, cat and mouse, police procedural, underworld, revenge, city, murder mystery, urban, male protagonist, gangster, betrayal, corruption, vigilante, moral ambiguity, violent, woman with a gun, drug crime, criminal, truth, tamil ...
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Most similar movies to Mafia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, tense, suspense and crime drama films with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, urban, corruption, investigation, cat and mouse and gangster mostly in Crime, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Mafia: Machine Gun Man (1961), Maro Prasthanam (2021), Adanga Maru (2018), Oomai Sennai (2021), Pathu Thala (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, tension, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, kidnapping, law enforcement, assassin, contract killing, hitman, police procedural, crime boss, violence, underworld, cat and mouse, urban ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Protagonist Shiva, works with dreaded gangster for living. An Unexpected incident, turns him into a revenge-seeking man. The way he carries out sting operation to expose the dark secrets of his gang is rest of the movie
Style:
tense, intense, suspenseful, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
gangster, revenge, betrayal, sting operation, underworld, corruption, violence, power struggle, justice, loyalty, moral ambiguity, vigilante ...
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34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sincere cop, who's suspended from the department for locking horns with a few influential people in the society, starts taking revenge against those who finished off his dear ones.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, revenge, tough cop, justice, corruption, police officer, vengeance, battles, police investigation, crime boss, fight, retribution ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who works for a seedy private detective decides to turn over a new leaf, but ends up antagonising the men behind his last assignment, and gets entangled in a web spun by greedy politicians, corrupt cops and ruthless gangsters.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, tense, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
gangster, corruption, organized crime, private detective, underworld, violence, danger, moral ambiguity, criminal conspiracy, criminal syndicate, political corruption, power struggle ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
An undercover cop goes into the big bad world, a place taken over by a don, where his safety may be compromised.
Style:
dramatic, tense, suspenseful, crime drama, harsh ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, gangster, undercover cop, moral ambiguity, undercover police officer, danger, mafia don, mafia, peril, threat, working undercover, insecurity ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A sought-after Supercop gets caught in a series of unexpected events when he encounters a suspect who is accused of being involved in a murder case.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, action packed, intense, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, cop, lawlessness, vigilante, chase, murder mystery, investigation, moral ambiguity, revenge, corruption, urban, anti hero ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A fictionalized version of the events surrounding notorious criminal Tiruvarur Murugan, who was involved in a big jewellery shop robbery.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tension, intense, dark ...
Plot:
robbery, heist, law enforcement, master criminal, fugitive, police investigation, cat and mouse, pursuit, chase, suspicion, street crime, confrontation ...
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Deva, once living a quiet life, is shaken when his close friend dies under suspicious circumstances. Determined to uncover the truth, he infiltrates a powerful gang operating in the shadows. As he investigates, Deva becomes entangled in a dangerous ...
Style:
tension, suspense, dark, noir, neo noir
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, investigation, underworld, undercover, male protagonist, gang, violent, urban, city, vigilante, power struggle ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Munna (Prabhas) is a college student. His aim is to finish off mafia don Kakha (Prakash Raj) who keeps the entire city under his grip. Munna has personal vengeance to take on Kakha. An honest politician Srinivasa Rao (Kota Srinivasa Rao) ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, masala ...
Plot:
revenge, gangster, unrequited love, relationship problems, male female relationship, family problems, couple relations, unfulfilled love, criminal, criminal's revenge, vigilante, family drama ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
Style:
crime drama, neo noir, detective, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder, interpol, drug traffic, law enforcement, investigation, urban, underworld, police procedural, violent, revenge, exploitation, nightlife ...
Time:
year 1971
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal.
Style:
tense, intense, brutal, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
law enforcement, urban, police, crime investigation, homicide, violent, city life, gang violence, gangster, moral ambiguity, organized crime, underworld ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Revolves around an underworld don, who loses the USB password of his Swiss bank account.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, tense, dark, fast paced ...
Plot:
underworld, crime boss, gangster, organized crime, urban, violent, moral ambiguity, betrayal, corruption, power struggle, money laundering, heist ...
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Detective Kaniyan Poonkundran is hungry for a challenging case to investigate and the mystery of a murdered dog leads to a rival who could be the match for him.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, detective, twisted, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
investigation, private detective, deduction, whodunit, cat and mouse, urban, rivalry, revenge, moral ambiguity, entertainment, murder mystery, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"The Cliff" is an American crime drama that takes place in the pulsing streets of Dallas'. Undercover police officer Russell Barnes, faces a new challenge of bringing down high profiled drug dealing music executive Daemon Miller. ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, intense, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
undercover cop, drug traffic, music industry, underworld, cat and mouse, investigation, crime boss, drug lord, law enforcement, urban, betrayal, police corruption ...
Place:
dallas texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Assigned to go undercover to take down an impenetrable crime ring, a detective finds himself falling under the sway of it's enigmatic leader.
Style:
tense, hood, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, urban, black, undercover, covert operation, working undercover, criminal gang, criminal, gang, intrigue, undercover agent, master criminal ...
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25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Dog and Cat is an American television series that aired on ABC on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m Eastern time in 1977.
Lou Antonio played Sgt. Jack Ramsey, an undercover detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, who found himself teamed with a ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, dark, period piece ...
Plot:
shooting, gangster, investigation, murder, violence, gunfight, police procedural, urban, organized crime, trauma, police station, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the streets he once swore to protect.
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspenseful, tense, noir ...
Plot:
revenge, moral ambiguity, urban, mature, betrayal, underworld, corruption, slow burn, urban decay, cat and mouse, justice, mission
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25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Police officer Hamza requests his transfer to the Anti-Narcotics Administration, following the killing of his brother by Suleiman Al-Muslimi. He monitors his brother Salem, the big drug dealer, who smuggled Suleiman and fabricated a charge for ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, detective, serious, action drama ...
Plot:
police, organized crime, drug lord, narcotics, drug traffic, law enforcement, investigation, revenge, smuggling, justice, violence, corruption ...
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A cop Arul (Arya) is on an undercover mission to capture the underworld don Jothi (Ashutosh Rana) who runs a smuggling mafia in Goa. When both Arul and his friend Chandra (Ramanna) plans to arrest Jothi, things go haywire and the rest of the story ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
police, gangster, cop, covert operation, undercover, betrayal, police detective, undercover police officer, gang, government coverup, bandit, police officer ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Sathya and Kiruba are friends. Sathya is reckless and gets into drinking and violent fights whereas Kiruba studies hard to become a Sub-Inspector. Tables are turned when Sathya becomes a Sub-Inspector.
Style:
suspense, action thriller, intense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, police, justice, male protagonist, revenge, investigation, violence, moral ambiguity, character study, urban, corruption, betrayal ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A woman is murdered and her neighbour is picked up as a suspect. Meanwhile, a journalist believes he can use this murder to lure an elusive gangster, with help from the guy’s former accomplice.
Style:
captivating, psychological, crime drama, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, gangster, crime investigation, investigative reporter, crime solving, murder investigation, battles, uncover truth, fight, murder mystery, who done it ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
24%
385
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
S.I.S., or Special Investigation Squad, is an elite branch of the LAPD. A new psychopath terrorizing Los Angeles proves to be their hardest case yet.
Style:
action thriller, crime drama, tense, detective, dark ...
Plot:
lapd, police procedural, vigilante, crime boss, moral ambiguity, investigation, gangster, maverick cop, extreme violence, corruption, cover up, cat and mouse ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
An extortion gang that murders businessmen kills a policeman working on the case. ACP Jayaseelan exterminates the gang by way of unofficial encounters, but the murders continue. What the cop doesn't realise is that the brain behind the crimes ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, goon, kidnapping, swashbuckler, murder investigation, criminal, gang, criminal underworld, bandit, organized crime, murder mystery, police investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Rama Chandra (played by Daggubati Venkatesh) is the Deputy Commissioner of Police of Hyderabad City. His upbringing as an orphan, and the special nature of his job as a policeman, have left him reluctant to form relationships with women. He ...
Style:
action thriller, dark, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police, revenge, gangster, organized crime, male protagonist, vigilante justice, violent, corruption, urban, police procedural, moral ambiguity, family drama ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
The Homicide Intervention Team (HIT) sends ruthless police officer Arjun Sarkaar to find a group of killers and stop their grisly murder spree.
Style:
crime thriller, detective, suspense, tense, grim ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, serial killer, law enforcement, violent, cat and mouse, forensic, moral ambiguity, revenge, brutal murder, violent death, cult
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story revolves around victims who have been brutally raped, murdered and then burnt using Kerosene. While investigating the case, Vaibhav comes across a few more cases with the same Modus Operandi committed.
Style:
dark, suspense, crime drama, disturbing, detective ...
Plot:
murder, violent, rape, arson, investigation, law enforcement, police procedural, trauma, serial killer, justice, grief, evidence ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
After being in jail for 14 years, Thilagavarman gets out of prison on parole. A cat-and-mouse chase unfolds as Nandhini, a tainted police officer zeroes in on him as suspect in a spate of murders
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, crime drama, fast paced ...
Plot:
cat and mouse, police procedural, investigation, character study, urban, corruption, obsession, revenge, moral ambiguity, justice, violent, ambulance driver ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Story:
The Suspect story is a Crime drama and Murder mystery, where every investigation step forward is leading towards a new suspect. Will the Inspector Arjun overcome the obstacles and reveal the truth, or will he unmask the real murderer?
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, tense, detective, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
crime scene, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police procedural, whodunit, interrogation, alibi, twists and turns, motive, conspiracy, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
narcotics, rookie, drug trade, undercover, drug addiction, police procedural, urban, moral ambiguity, street crime, law enforcement, sting operation, betrayal ...
Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A CBCID officer investigates an eccentric series of crimes happening in the city. His investigation leads him to unexpected crime perpetrators.
Style:
suspense, dark, suspenseful, crime thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
investigation, revenge, police procedural, police, crime investigation, serial killer, justice, crime scene, cop, obsession, determination, cat and mouse ...
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